Algorithms quotes
48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician."
"An algorithm is like a recipe."
"I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit."
"You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller."
"You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers."
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"Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either."
"[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning."